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2016-03-15kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address tableArd Biesheuvel
Similar to how relative extables are implemented, it is possible to emit the kallsyms table in such a way that it contains offsets relative to some anchor point in the kernel image rather than absolute addresses. On 64-bit architectures, it cuts the size of the kallsyms address table in half, since offsets between kernel symbols can typically be expressed in 32 bits. This saves several hundreds of kilobytes of permanent .rodata on average. In addition, the kallsyms address table is no longer subject to dynamic relocation when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is in effect, so the relocation work done after decompression now doesn't have to do relocation updates for all these values. This saves up to 24 bytes (i.e., the size of a ELF64 RELA relocation table entry) per value, which easily adds up to a couple of megabytes of uncompressed __init data on ppc64 or arm64. Even if these relocation entries typically compress well, the combined size reduction of 2.8 MB uncompressed for a ppc64_defconfig build (of which 2.4 MB is __init data) results in a ~500 KB space saving in the compressed image. Since it is useful for some architectures (like x86) to retain the ability to emit absolute values as well, this patch also adds support for capturing both absolute and relative values when KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, by emitting absolute per-cpu addresses as positive 32-bit values, and addresses relative to the lowest encountered relative symbol as negative values, which are subtracted from the runtime address of this base symbol to produce the actual address. Support for the above is enabled by default for all architectures except IA-64 and Tile-GX, whose symbols are too far apart to capture in this manner. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27Revert "namespace: add source file location exceptions"Michal Marek
This reverts commit 24a54f7974a616385b96cd939e004592e2cea484. Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> writes: > That patch should not be included. It causes more problems than it > solves, since then there are duplicate file locations which causes > false duplicate symbol reports. Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-10-27namespace: add source file location exceptionsStephen Hemminger
Teach namespace checker about some special case files where the source is in unusual location. This fixes many of the source file not found errors (more can be added), and also prevents false positives for functions not being used. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-10-27scripts/namespace.pl: improve to get more correct resultsAmerigo Wang
Exclude more symbols from arch/x86/vdso/ and arch/x86/boot/; add some more linker-defined symbols into exception list; add other cond_syscalls besides "sys_*". Signed-off-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-10-27scripts/namespace.pl: some bug fixesAmerigo Wang
1. Teach namespace.pl to understand "V" and "v" 2. cond_syscalls are moved into kernel/sys_ni.c Signed-off-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-10-27scripts/namespace.pl: update file exclusion listStephen Hemminger
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-10-27scripts/namespace.pl: fix wrong source pathAmerigo Wang
File::Find will do chdir automatically, so we need to get the absolute patch with $File::Find::dir. Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-03-07namespace: perlcritic warningsStephen Hemminger
Use local file handle not global. Make loop and other variables local in scope. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> Cc: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2007-10-11x86: fixup the x86 namespace change in scripts/namespace.plThomas Gleixner
Let namespace.pl look at the correct files. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-04-11kbuild: fix mode of checkstack.pl and other files.Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Make it executable like it should be. Do the same for other files intended to be executed by the user - the ones called by the build process needn't be executable as they already work (as argument to their interpreter). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-27kbuild: make namespace.pl CROSS_COMPILE happyAaron Brooks
Using the fixed path to /usr/bin/{nm,objdump} does not allow CROSS_COMPILE environments to use namespace.pl. This patch causes namespace.pl to use $NM and $OBJDUMP if defined or fall back to the nm and objdump found in the path. Signed-off-by: Aaron Brooks <aaron.brooks@sicortex.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!